Ryan Schwank Testimony: ICE Terrorizing Communities Without Warrants & No Restraint

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank shares whistleblower testimony concerning his choice to leave the agency after witnessing the slashing of ICE training requirements and explains his experience receiving a secret memo encouraging agents to enter homes using illegal warrants. On February 23rd, 2026, the Oversight Committee heard from an ICE Whistleblower, a U.S. citizen whose home was forcefully entered by agents without a judicial warrant, and General Counsel for the Department of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017. Representative Robert Garcia (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, hold a bicameral public forum on constitutional violations and abuses by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).